Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley : Lepidoptera : Heliconidae

by: Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892

Publication date: 1861

Topics: Heliconidae, Lepidoptera, Beetles

Publisher: [s.l. : s.n.]

Collection: biodiversity; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

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Addeddate: 2008-11-07 11:51:06

Call number: 39088003314846

Camera: Canon 5D

External-identifier: urn:oclc:record:1042405426

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Identifier: contributionstoi00bate

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t6zw1qm64

Identifier-bib: 39088003314846

Openlibrary_edition: OL22864786M

Openlibrary_work: OL1088624W

Pages: 88

Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT

Full catalog record: MARCXML

This book is available with additional data at Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Reviewer: wloveral - - April 14, 2009
Subject: Bates 1862: An historic paper

In this paper Bates first proposed the sort of animal mimicry that bears his name today: Batesian mimicry.

The butterfly taxomony is difficult for us today because we recognize Ithomiinae as a separate nymphalid subfamily. Basically, Bates found resounding similarities between Dismorphinae (Pieridae) and Ithomiinae. He reasoned that the Ithomiinae were the models.

If Bates had done nothing else in his long and productive life aside from his discovery, he would still be justly famous.

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